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I'm a bigger LEGO fan than I am a Star Wars fan so most of my build have been in the Creator line. However the Star Wars UCS line does have some of the largest and most interesting builds so I knew eventually I would get there. Since I came out of my dark ages a year and a half ago, I've always thought the UCS Imperial Shuttle 10212 was one of the most accurate and interesting looking Star Wars models and wanted to get one. To that end, for the past 3 months I've been slowly bricklinking 10212, 10182, and 10189. All original parts and color in new condition except where it didn't make sense (e.g. stud hole vs no stud hole). All new condition except, again, where it didn't make sense due to price or availability. I can give more specifics if anyone is interested but in short I sourced all three for about $1,400 plus ~$40,000 in unpaid time . This week in the evenings I built 10212... In the end I was just as impressed as I thought I would be. Really enjoyed the build and the final result!

Built this last week with the 6 year old. Pretty happy with how it turned out...enjoyable build, several play features and a ton of mini figs...I really like the end result.

Picked up a Tumbler and Grand Emporium with beat up boxes for $350 and he threw in an Avengers Tower and Quinjet City Chase for another $50.

10252 Wolkswagen Beetle (Chibi) by Gerald Cacas

Finished an incompleted Sopwith I found in CL. Bought it for $30 but it was missing a few unique pieces so after everything said and done, it's closer to $45. Really like the design. It's bigger than I thought and looks good even without a smooth plane wing. However, I understand the limited appeal and that's why it's dropping in value. Great for personal build.

Excellent point. It's like a mullet, Business up front, party in the rear.

We don't have a lot of context for the beach battle yet, but I would expect the Empire would use more troops to guard and/or retrieve the Death Star plans. Doesn't look like a large scale battle from what I've seen but I'm sure the AT-ATs will be in there from the earlier trailer we saw. I thought these were quite entertaining:

Rhosgobel (Radagasts house) by Legonardo Davidy

6.5 hours is not taking into account the additional time it will take when I have to go back 20 steps taking about what I built because I screwed something up.

The world we live in nowadays

Target.com lego dimensions back to the future fun pack #71230 for $5.09 (local pick up also available) http://www.target.com/p/lego-dimensions-back-to-the-future-fun-pack/-/A-50535504?lnk=abtest_searchpdp_1 lego dimensions dr. Who fun pack #71238 for $5.99 (with an option of local pick up) http://www.target.com/p/lego-dimensions-dr-who-fun-pack/-/A-50535532?lnk=abtest_searchpdp_2

Where were they 7 years ago to take care of the cast from jersey shore.

Season 3 Trailer. Be warned...there are spoilers.

Plus, the target audience for this set is clearly not just AFOLs who want it in a glass case in their dining room. Looks like they wanted a set that can be played with (so Parents will consider it as a set for their kids) which looks fairly accurate, without being tedious/difficult to assemble. I think they did a great job at that ... it looks like the real thing, it shows well, and it has tons of play opportunities inside. Sure there are things that could have been done differently, but you'd move the set out of the ideal intersection of playability, looks and ease-of-construction.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but my guess is you're in a hypercritical minority here. Are there details about this set that could use improvement? - sure - there are no perfect sets after all. But, in the end, I have to think that viewed in total, the positives, surely outweigh the negatives. Im not sure why you think it's a trade off though? Every time a new set gets released, we go though the same routine. People want to scrutinize every aspect of the design looking for inaccuracies compared to the source material. I'm fairly confident everyone will look at this model when built and know exactly what it represents. In my mind, the designers have accomplished their objective. We've got a highly displayable set, that also has some real cool interior play features. It's one of the most iconic structures on the planet. It's exclusive, but not unobtainable either. I can't really ask for much more.

Man these are UGGGGLLLLYYY! No thanks. Big time pass on me both as an investment and as a collector. Just like Pokemon Go, I just don't get the funko pop craze either. This bubble will "pop" in a few years and all these will be worthless. Then there will be all this useless funko pop figurines valued at 0 floating in the great pacific garbage patch. Regardless.... I also see this as another case where Lego is kind of losing their edge. While, we can champion the Disney Castle, and to some degree the Big Ben, Lego has been pretty stale on new and exciting ideas this year.

This is how I decided to stage the characters. Love the lightning.

Finally put together the GE I bought last year as a partial set in a bulk lot on eBay for cheap. I loved this build so much more than the Fire Brigade. It was pretty fun. Not sure if it's because it's a corner building, or feels more regal. But it just looks pretty cool.

Finally! After a week of building this from bulk- putting the finishing touches on this bad boy .

I really liked this set more than I would have imagined after I've built it. Only thing I really found tricky during was to get the clock right. So like you I found the best result I could achieve was putting it shortly before or after midnight.

Jeff is working on a complete overhaul of the site to increase usability and give it a more modern feel. There might be some bumps along the way.

HOLY **** !!!! Not only the W word, but the T word too ???? I am not worthy

That is what I love about this year instead of having to spend time deciding what to get Lego makes it for me by making bad sets.

Just bought one today. Looks fun. 95% chance it is taken over by Ewoks by the end of the weekend.

Can I know which issue the penthouse magazine is? lol

Who flips stuff just build it all

Starting 6/16 in Kokomo, IN

Sony should prepare to be disappointed, then. ;-)

One of the best things about this set is it can appeal to those who want to play or display unlike 10188 and 10143. The front great to display like 10143 and the rear is like 10188.

That's really what I was trying to say @Phil B. Its like the argument of 10188 Death Star play set style vs. 10143 Death Star II UCS style. Both sets have their target audience and intended purpose, but one isn't necessarily better than the other.

Yes, was wondering this myself. June's values were there for a few weeks, and now have disappeared altogether. Only May's values seem available.

Mine came exactly like yours. On one side, the seals were diagonal. The box looks ok...if they opened it, what were they looking for? Is the minifig that unique/desired? What are you going to do? I was going to open it tonight "to check" but I know that just means that I'm going to build it and get yelled at by the wifey for building another set instead of selling =)

I honestly had no idea where to put this so....here you go. Heh.

I built that

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It's kind of funny that Mattel announced a line of Mega Bloks Kubros in a very similar style back at Toy Fair in February and have a couple TMNT exlusives at SDCC this year.

Dave Filoni panel on Ahsoka's Untold streaming LIVE! NOW!

This picture is the exact one I had in mind when I made the comment. If you had sold that, you wouldn't know if the seller was trying to rip you off. The seller wouldn't know if you were trying to rip him/her off. Nobody would know except the person who did it.

Sariel's video features a surprise performance by @Alpinemaps!!! Cameo baby!

I bet on Pet Shop (before Christmas!)

Bored last nite.. Minding my own business building a drilling station, and here comes a whole bus of tourists..

Yeah, my bad, never had been a big Star Trek fan...

I have a good paying job but got into this one small step at a time. I had read articles about people in the Toronto area who were doing this full time and between my love of lego, comics, star wars, and having a son who's also interested in this stuff, I figured I had a good idea of what would be worth money, which was supported by my research into what some of my personal sets were worth if still in their sealed box. The eye opener for me was a few years ago when TRU had a promotion where you spend $35 on lego and get a free robin mini cycle polybag set. I ended up with 3 of these (one for me, 2 extra) and listed the extra 3 on ebay. I sold each for $65 CDN, which to my mind meant I got all the lego I had purchased for myself for free plus a little extra. So with all the trips to various toy sellers I was already making due to my and my son's interests, I started picking up sets whenever I saw them on discount and selling them after EOL. Now I am selling between $400-$800 worth of sets per month, and I figure close to half of that is profit. I'm comfortable with the amount of time I put into this and don't feel like I'm really expending any extra time or money other than the time and costs of shipping since I'd be going to these stores anyway even if I wasn't reselling. Many of the sets I sell on Craigslist and Kijiji end up requiring nothing more than a short walk from my office to meet another office dweller since I work right by Union Station, which is surrounded by working parents with no convenient toy stores nearby. And there are lots of Canada Posts down here too so the Amazon sales also only require a short walk. I don't ever see myself giving up my job for this, but the side money is too good to pass up given the convenience. I can see myself doing this into my retirement years (which should still be decades away) as long as lego is still popular then. And even if it isn't, I expect kids who grew up with it when it was popular will want more sets when they're grown up like me. My short term goals are to start buying more of the bigger sets soon, like the modulars and ultimate sets. I have a lot of them for my personal collection but just bought my first one for resale last week - the Ewok village with double VIP points plus the Ninjago giveaway. I have been pleasantly surprised with how much can be made with even the small $20-$50 sets. I can get these for 40%-50% off during clearance or other promotions from Walmart or Supercentre a few times a year, which makes reselling easier. I have never had a problem selling these kinds of sets fro the MSRP after EOL as parents will happily pay that price (and no tax) for something that can't be found, and they won't feel ripped off by paying less than the after tax price. And I get close to a 100% return at that price, which is often after only a very short turn around as I find a lot of those discounts happen right before a set goes EOL. When I was young, my friends and I dreamed of selling our comics for profit. That never panned out, but ironically I am now making money selling lego based on the comics I used to read. What a world.